The Full History of Twitter - Timeline of Twitter History

SHARE:

The Full History of Twitter - Timeline of Twitter History
Twitter is an American online microblogging and social networking service

The Full History of Twitter - Timeline of Twitter History

Twitter is an American online microblogging and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets". Tweets were originally restricted to 140 characters, but on November 7, 2017, this limit was doubled to 280 for all languages except Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

[Message]

CEO: Jack Dorsey (30 Sep 2015–)

Founded: 21 March 2006, San Francisco, California, United States

Headquarters: San Francisco, California, United States

Founders: Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, Evan Williams

The Full History of Twitter - Timeline of Twitter History

The blog service " Blogger " was developed during the creation period, and it was developed mainly by Evan Williams, who was sold to Google, and Biz Stone, Jack Dorsey who were part of the blogger development team.

According to Dorsey, the basic concept of Twitter is itself in 2000 came up in June. Real-time performance is higher than LiveJournal, and he has noticed the possibility of a service that lets acquaintances know their situation wherever they are, and vice versa. Dorsey warmed up the idea for five years and then launched it as an Odeo project.

2006

Twitter of service that began in July 2007 event ", which was held in the United States in March South by South West was awarded the blog-related awards" (South By Southwest, SXSW) got a lot of attention.

Since its inception, co-founders have run primarily on their own funds, but on July 26, 2007, Union Square Ventures, Charles River Ventures, and several private investments Announced that he raised funds from his house.

2009 October 15

2009 October 15, the mobile phone opened a friendly site, at the same time WILLCOM has been registered as an official content of.

2008 February 1,

Twitter is the reason the reliability NTT Communications of the wholly-owned subsidiary of NTT America is a hosting service announced that chose.

On March 23, 2009,

an executive tweet site “ExecTweets” was established. The site is sponsored by Microsoft. Microsoft has also announced plans to add services that allow users to access Twitter, Facebook, Last FM, etc. from their Xbox Live.

2010 April 9

to Research in Motion in cooperation with the BlackBerry to start the free distribution of the official client application "Twitter for BlackBerry" for terminal, the same day more iPhone for viewing app " Tweetie acquisition of" It was announced that it would be distributed for free as an official Twitter app, and was released as "Twitter for iPhone" on May 19.

The April 30 in Google 's Android are also started free distribution of has been developed in cooperation with the development team official viewing app "Twitter for Android".

As of August 31, 2010,

Twitter API 's basic authentication (basic) has been discontinued and has completely shifted to OAuth. It was originally scheduled to end on June 30, but it was postponed because the system has remained unstable due to the impact of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

In June 2012,

The logo design was changed. The circle and golden ratio were used. The same year September 5, provide start the version 1.1 of the Twitter API from. In addition, the display guidelines for developers have been significantly changed.

General user client can not use to have reached the upper limit of the user authentication number, Twitter widget of the old forms of blogs and Web sites are affected, such as can not be used. Later, on

June 11, 2013,
API version 1.0 was discontinued, making it impossible to use Twitter clients that do not support version 1.1.